Advocate for Cats

I applied this product for fleas and as I have a black cat and a white cat this product took my nail varnish off my nails and covered my cat in it? Couldn't see it on black cat, obviously! What is in this stuff!!!?

It made my cat really unwell. She had diarrhoea, was sick, and wasn’t eating. Her personality changed and was very lethargic I was really worried. I washed it off her then she started to get a bit better. Really strong toxic chemicals wouldn’t advise to use…it could have ended up worse you don’t want to regret giving this to your beloved pet so use something else! I would rather deal with the fleas any day than use this stuff again.

My Cat also had a very bad reaction to the Advocate for large cats spot on (she's 5kg)

Not long after application she was hissing at me (totally out of character) and making really pained sounds. She also went on a long walkabout the next day (common to some other bad reactions I have read about online) and when she came back hours later she was off her food, shivery and not herself

I have given her spot ons before with no bad reactions (not advocate) it just seems like the local vet switched to advocate recently and I will be asking some questions of them

Looking online it seems that some Cats have a SEVERELY bad reaction to this particular spot on and in my opinion, Cat owners should be cautious with this remedy

Recommended by vet. Almost killed my cat. Without many details: salivating, vomiting with foam, lack of apetite, lethargic. Recovered after 48 hours, however, slight changes in behaviour, would not come back home for 11 hours today. And still ... was told by another vet to observe if any neurological symptoms would occure. After reading some reviews here I am getting anxious that my cat is not out of the woods yet as there could be more problems on the horizon even after two weeks. And the fleas??? Getting more bites as the days progress!

my cat has fleas so got advocate from pet shop .put on advocate on cat about an hour later cat looked like a rag doll took her to vet he said advocate should be band .she died 2 days later DONT USE ADVOCATE YOU WILL BE SORRY SO WILL YOUR CAT.Also have a few other people i know said it did not work and cats got very sick.

DO NOT USE! We regularly deworm our cats but the vet tried us with Advocate - let me tell you Advocate is not safe for our cats. After just one treatment it has permanently left them terrified, lethargic and depressed.

PLEASE DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND LOOK FOR AN ALTERNATIVE, I wish we had, but it is too late now. This stuff is literally poison.

We have used frontline to rid our cat of fleas as he had them when we got him. Signed up to a pet plan with the vet and they gave us advocate. The cat as if to show it doesn't work has within a week of application got fleas and brought them in to the house so we are both now suffering. Not sure how long to leave it before applying frontline again. The vet will be getting an ear full on our our next visit.

I had a flea problem and tried natural treatment first, I was finding one or two fleas every few days after 6 months of this so agreed to try a chemical treatment. I put it on my dogs for 6 months and didn’t check them- sure that it would work. One day I thought my son had headlice and then realised he had 3 fleas in his hair! He had been sat with the dogs. I checked them and they were literally crawling with fleas! 6 months of advocate and we had a major infestation.

I believe fleas are becoming more and more resistant to chemical flea treatments. There’s no research done on this because vets and pharmaceutical companies make loads of money from these treatments so who’s going to do it? Frontline stopped working years ago and now others are too..... We’re risking our animals lives using more and more chemicals. Back to natural treatments for us which will be really hard work thanks to advocate failing.

A few hours after treatment with Advocate for cats , our cat became very ill- later developing symptoms of neurological disturbance. He didnt seem to be aware of what was going on around him as he continued circling, stumbling & bumping into things. Later, he started convulsing. he then went rigid,& i thought he had died.We rushed him to our vet,but took him home to keep under observation following n anti-inflammatory injection. Three days later he had started to improve rapidly.

I have never liked using any of these flea spot ons on my cats as I know they are powerful neurotoxins. Several of our cats have responded negatively to Frontline, Advantage and Advocate. Others have not. However we have a Bengal on chemo and steroids and our vet told us when we saw her with Cleo this week and she found a flea on her that if Cleo was hers she would use the Advocate. Fleas can carry blood parasites which are particularly dangerous to cats on high doses of steroids as we already knew as we lost our precious Bear cat to that. So today reluctantly we applied the correct Advantage pipette on both Cleo and Llewi (Persian/BirmanX) 13 and 12 years old respectively and at the correct place on the back of the neck. Cleo seems absolutely fine but within minutes Llewi was agitated, flicking his tail and running around with his belly to the floor shaking his head and blinking. He ran out the front and I followed him. For 15 minutes he ran around as if trying to run away from himself and wouldn't let me near him. He was drooling excessively all down his front and was looking at me as if to say 'Why have you done this to me?' He kept lying down and then getting up and trying to run away from himself again. When he eventually came back in and up the stairs I picked him up and stroked him under the chin and on his front where he had been drooling thick strings of sticky saliva and my hands literally stunk of chemicals. We washed it off him and I will NEVER use Advocate/Advantage again. Our vets have all told us drooling and watering eyes are just a reaction to the carrier. Rubbish - these powerful chemicals get into the bloodstream very quickly (as Bayer themselves admit). While some cats don't seem to react at all others definitely do and reading the reviews here applying this stuff seems to be playing Russian Roulette with your cat's life and I will never do that again. I'm going to refer my vets to this site. Advocate/Advantage is not safe. Period.